"Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything."

“Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.”

Source : David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.30, Anchor

“God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.”

“And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.”

“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”

“To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.”

“Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.”

Source : RealClearPolitics interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2010.

“Many writers write across difference of one kind or another. Sometimes the difference is large and recognizable: gender, or race, or religion, or sexuality. And sometimes the differences are smaller. ... Where authors get into trouble is in trying to make those different characters stand in for whole groups of people, or for creating characters only to fetishize or explore their supposed otherness. Your character can be wildly different from you, as long as he's written with respect and, moreover, specificity.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.